Soacha landslide victims to receive subsidies
Victims of landslides caused by heavy rain in the area of Soacha, south of Bogota, will receive government subsidies. The Cundinamarca department, where Soacha is located, will give 150 subsidies…
Victims of landslides caused by heavy rain in the area of Soacha, south of Bogota, will receive government subsidies. The Cundinamarca department, where Soacha is located, will give 150 subsidies…
Six military officials are being investigated by Colombia’s Prosecutor’s General’s Office for allegedly killing two men in 2003 and then presenting them as guerrillas killed in combat. The men will…
Colombian journalist Felipe Zuleta announced Thursday that he plans to take Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to the International Criminal Court over the army’s extrajudicial killings of civilians who they then…
Unusually heavy rains continue to drench the Colombian town of Soacha, on the outskirts of Bogota, leading authorities to declare a state of emergency, Radio Santa Fe reported Thursday. According to reports, the…
Three people were killed and another three injured when a gas cylinder exploded in Soacha, a municipality located on the outskirts of Colombia’s capital, Bogota. The gas cylinder, which was…
Over 3,700 extrajudicial killings, defined as the murder of non-combatants by members of the security forces, were recorded in Colombia over the past seven years, according to investigations by human rights…
Japan and the United Nations (UN) will donate more than $2.5 million towards reinforcing security in the town of Soacha, just south of Colombia’s capital city Bogota. “Almost 50 years…
Authorities from the central Colombian department of Cundinamarca on Friday announced the release of sixteen members of the national army who were being investigated for committing extrajudicial murder of a…
The Prosecutor General’s Office is pressing charges against fifteen military personnel who stand accused of killing three men and presenting their bodies as FARC combatants killed in battle. The fifteen…